Rhymes on art; or, The remonstrance of a painter |
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Seite 122 - SECRET (the) history of the court and cabinet of St. Cloud : in a series of letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London, written during the months of August, September, and October, 1805.
Seite 111 - The advantage which poetry possesses over painting, in continued narration and successive impression, cannot be advanced as a peculiar merit of the poet, since it results from the nature of language, and is common to prose.
Seite 118 - Memoirs, written by himself ; containing his literary and political Life, and Anecdotes of the principal Characters of the eighteenth Century.
Seite 120 - THE HISTORY OF THE ORKNEY ISLANDS : In which is comprehended, An Account of their Present as well as their Ancient State ; together with the Advantages they possess for several Branches of Industry, and the means by which they may be improved.
Seite 112 - verba ardentia" of the poet, to the breathing beauties, the living lustre of the pencil, rivalling the noblest productions of nature, expressing the characteristics of matter and mind, the powers of soul, the perfection of form, the brightest bloom of colour, the golden glow of light ? Can the airy shadows of poetical imagery be compared to the embodied realities of art...
Seite 67 - While cool state chymists watch the boiling brim, And life's low dregs upon the surface swim: What though midst passion's fiery tumults tost, A generation's in the process lost, The calm philosopher pursues his plan Regardless of his raw material, man.
Seite 111 - No rock is barren, and no wild is waste ; 550 competent to the task, of the powers displayed in both arts; of the qualities from nature and education which they respectively require, would perhaps amend the record, if not reverse the decree. What is there of intellectual in the operations of the poet, which the painter does not equal ? what is there of mechanical which he does not surpass ? He also is one " cui sit ingenium, eui mens divinior." The
Seite 114 - Whether, apart considerM, or combin'd, The forms of matter, and the traits of mind; Nature, exhaustless, still has power to warm, And every change of scene a novel charm: The dome-crown'd city, or the cottag*d plain, The rough cragg'd mountain, or tumultuous main ; The temple rich, in trophied pride...
Seite 119 - A Dissertation on Anecdotes; Of Miscellanies; On Professors of Art ; On Style; Historical Characters are false Representations of Nature; On Prefaces ; Some Observations on Diaries, Self-Biography, and Self-Characters ; On the Character of Dennis the Critic; On Erudition and Philosophy; On Poetical Opuscula ; On
Seite 118 - J. BIDLAKE, AB Chaplain to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, and Master of the Grammar School, Plymouth.